What was he doing there? How long after his appearance did Ia Drang/LZ XRay happen
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Thank you for asking. Great question.
About 3 weeks before our 1965 Battle of the IA DRANG Valley a junket of Senators/Representatives from Congress, including a young Senator TED KENNEDY, came trotting thru our 1st Cav Headquarters at An Khe, South Vietnam.
They were on a trip to survey how a then Free South Vietnam's new civilian war refugees were being affected by our War Operations at the very begining of the Vietnam War.
Our 1st Cav's Commanding General that Senator KENNEDY was visiting was none other than General HARRY W.O. KINNARD, of World War II's "NUTS" fame during the Battle of the Bulge.
It was a young Intel Operations Officer Capt. KINNARD who suggested that very "NUTS" response to his Commanding General MacAuliffe as being the appropriate response to a German Ultimatum of Surrender issued us at a surrounded Bastogne.
All History in the doing.
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